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__Book shares/ Recommended reads:__


 * The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893 - 1958 - Herbert M. Kliebard
 * Historical Thinking and other Unnatural Acts… - Sam Wineburg
 * Readicide - Kelly Gallagher
 * Book Love - Penny Kittle
 * Write Beside Them - Penny Kittle
 * Children Want to Write (about Donald Graves research on writer’s workshop) - Thomas Newkirk, Penny Kittle
 * Bowling Alone - Robert D. Putnam
 * Madonna’s kids’ book series
 * Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day - Jamie Lee Curtis
 * The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
 * Monstress - Lysley Tenorio
 * Different cultural Cinderella stories
 * The Secret Life of Squirrels
 * Sudden Flash Youth - 65 Short-Short Stories
 * On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King
 * Lincoln in the Bardo
 * Cider House Rules (and others by same author)
 * Wise Eyes (on the flash drive) - Mary Ann Smith, Sherry Swain
 * You Can’t Say You Can’t Play - Vivien Gussin Paley
 * Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain - Zaretta Hammond
 * The Activist Learner - Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Whitney Douglas, and Sara W. Fry
 * Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Reads Matters - Kylene Beers, Robert E. Probst
 * Deeper Reading… - Kelly Gallagher
 * Write Like This…. - Kelly Gallagher
 * Reading Reasons… - Kelly Gallagher
 * Bronx Masquerade - Nikki Grimes
 * Revolution - Deborah Wiles
 * Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis - Robert D. Putnam
 * What Kind of Citizen? Educating Our Children for the Common Good - Joel Westheimer
 * Teaching for Joy and Justice - Linda Christensen
 * Upstanders: How to Engage Middle School Hearts and Minds with Inquiry - Harvey “Smokey” Daniels, Sara Ahmed
 * Love That Dog - Sharon Creech
 * Inside Writing - How to Teach the Details of Craft - Donald H. Graves, Penny Kittle (if you order //Inside Writing// from Amazon, //My Quick Writes for Inside Writing// comes as a companion text)
 * My Quick Writes for Inside Writing Donald H. Graves
 * Black Like Them Malcolm Gladwell
 * "Seeing Student Learning" - [[file:Rodgers - Seeing Student Learning.pdf]]
 * "Our Reflections on Writing for Publication" - [[file:Ballenger Kaser Kauffman Schroeder Short - Our Reflections on Writing for Publication.pdf]]
 * Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less by Alexander Aciman
 * ShrinkLits: Seventy of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size by Maurice Sagoff
 * Alternatives to Grading Student Writing Stephen Tchudi, editor
 * De-testing and De-Grading Schools: Authentic Alternatives to Accountability and Standardization Joe Bower and Paul L. Thomas, editors
 * The Formative Assessment Action Plan
 * "What Does Vygotsky Provide for the 21st-Century Language Arts Teacher?" by Peter Smagorinsky:
 * "defining the magic by Charles Bukowski
 * A Mindset for Learning Kristine Mraz
 * Purposeful Play: A Teacher's Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day Kristine Mraz, Alison Porcelli, Cheryl Tyler

Below are links to sites that we have discussed during the ISI:

Book Bub.

Beyond Bloom's Taxonomy

National Archives

__Website shares: “Put the Google on it” or “Ask Mr. Google” (ala Jenn’s mom)__


 * Book Bub.
 * Beyond Bloom's Taxonomy
 * National Archives
 * Reallygoodstuff.com
 * donorschoose.com
 * https://www.weareteachers.com/15-life-changing-middle-grade-books/#.WVYule-_934.twitter
 * @https://www.commitchange.com/nh/north-conway/the-book-love-foundation/campaigns/the-book-love-foundation-summer-book-club-17
 * Genius.com
 * Procon.org
 * Library of Congress
 * Sketchnotes
 * www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/cf/documents/elaeldvignettescollection.pdf
 * Backchannelchat.com
 * Socrative.com
 * Polleverywhere.com
 * Kidblog.com
 * Nowcomment.com
 * @http://www.smarterbalanced.org/
 * Frameworksinstitute.org
 * Everydayadvocacy.org
 * @https://tinyurl.com/spendingmaps
 * @https://lagente.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-10-at-9.01.03-PM.png
 * @http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1373483.files/Gangstas%20Wankstas%20and%20Ridas.pdf
 * @http://getlit.org/
 * Californiawritingproject.org
 * Cakewrecks.com
 * Genius scan (app)
 * Write for Rights - Amnesty International
 * Texting Stories - app to create a story through text
 * iPhone Fake Text - web-based version to create texting stories
 * "The Case Against Grades" Alfie Kohn
 * Summer Teacher Poetry Institute

Sites with Reviews for Kids, by Kids (from Language Arts) as well as places for students to publish their own writing:
 * The Spaghetti Book Club
 * Bookhooks
 * Book Reviews by Kids
 * cool-reads
 * Reader Views Kids
 * Teen Ink
 * Scholastic Art and Writing Awards